The Border (2008) s01e13 Episode Script

- Previously, on The Border:
- Is that the minister?
- We worked together in Bosnia.
- Beautiful woman, bombs,
bullets, yeah, yeah, I get it
- Let's just eliminate
conversation from
this relationship.
Silent sex. Isn't that just
a workaholic's dream?
- Why did Kessler leave JTF2?
- Some Bosnian op went south.
Civilians died, there
was a cover up.
- I have seen people who lived
in peace for over 30 years start
killing each other overnight.
- Be careful, Dad.
You almost said Bosnia.
- Make it a double.
It's been one of those decades.
- I feel your pain.
- Oh, I could do with
a bourbon myself.
What, I'm freezing my tits off.
- This gear is so retro.
I can't even pan and tilt
- I could use a chaser.
- I think we can accommodate.
- I used to play a little
baseball. I think you just
told that guy to steal
second base.
- Wouldn't know.
Football's my game.
- What's up?
- That man, I know him.
- Him? He's barely visible.
- Can you enhance him?
- No. Camera's fixed lens.
There's no zoom.
- Excuse me
Gotta use the can.
- Hey boss? Boss?
He's on the move
- Package delivered.
- Immigration
and Customs Security!
- Get your hands up
where I can see them!
- Stay seated!
- Sorry folks, dinner's over
And no, we do not provide
doggie bags
- You're under arrest
for illegal weapons possession
and trafficking in a
controlled substance.
- Alright folks, stay calm,
have your identification
ready and we'll be around
to speak to each of you in turn.
- The people at that table
who were they?
- How the hell should I know?
- Dad?
Dad! Are you okay?
You were yelling.
- Hey sweetheart.
What are you doing here?
- I crash here, remember?
So I wouldn't have
to drink and drive
back to Mum's?
- Of course.
- Did you sleep here all night?
- You want some breakfast?
- Uh
Yeah, I guess I could
handle a piece of toast.
- We can do better than that.
- So tell me about
this nightmare.
- How about some french toast?
- You know this isn't
the first time you've
had nightmares.
You used to wake up
yelling all the time.
Really freaked me out.
- Really?
- I was 6,
7 when you got
back from Bosnia?
I remember having you home
felt really strange.
- I'd been gone a long time.
- I would wake up
and you would be
yelling or prowling around
the house like a ghost.
- I had no idea.
- Yeah, when you'd tuck
me in at night
and tell me there were no
monsters under the bed?
Zero credibility.
- Vlatko Radman. Last I heard,
he was sitting in the
Scheveningen Detention Centre
in the Hague,
awaiting trial for crimes
against humanity.
- Scheveningen. Isn't that where
Slobodan Milosevic was killed?
- He died of a heart attack.
- Yeah, right. After they
tampered with his meds
- Find out if Radman's
still in prison.
I need iron-clad verification,
and recent photographs.
- The Hague can be
kind of tricky.
Layers of lawyers, no problem.
- And I'll need our video
surveillance
from the restaurant.
- Hey boss?
American woman's here.
- Congratulations on your
arrests last night.
- I wasn't aware Homeland
Security took an interest.
- When Afghan heroin crosses
the Atlantic into Canada,
it usually ends up
on our streets.
That's why the waiter
you arrested last night
is an American Drug
Enforcement Agent.
- Please tell me you're not
operating an undercover
op on Canadian soil.
- Not me: the D.E.A.
- And you didn't warn me?
- The RCMP knew about it.
They should have warned you.
- Unbelievable.
- If it's any consolation,
they didn't tell me either.
We're both out of the loop.
- Do you find it's getting
harder and harder to tell?
- Who it is we're fighting?
Yeah.
- I'll release your man.
Make it like
he was never there.
- Thank you. Major.
- Vlatko Radman,
Croatian warlord
and mass murderer. Killed 18
unarmed Bosnian men
in a bus outside Ahmici.
- That's what they
arrested him for, anyway.
- Why? Is there something
else we don't know about?
- There was more.
- Where's Radman now?
- Dead.
- Since when?
- Four months ago. He died of
'sudden-onset brain cancer'.
That's code for 'a Serbian
inmate smashed his skull
against the concrete
in the exercise yard, while the
guard he bribed turned his back
and smoked a Russian cigar.'
- Where was Radman buried?
- Actually, he was cremated.
His ashes are interred
in Bosnia.
- I want to see the
death certificate.
- Ah, I checked it out.
It looks legit.
- And the warden's statement?
- Also looks good.
- Get him on the phone get
an interpreter if you have to.
I want to speak to him.
- Yeah, he's on an extended
leave in Montenegro.
Health problems.
- Perfect.
- You don't believe it?
- Where's that
surveillance footage?
- Right here.
- Okay, fast forward to just
before Gray leaves the bar
Zoom in on the man
in the coat
- That's the best you can do?
- No optical zoom.
- You don't really think that--
- Grab a frame and compare it
to Radman's photo.
- O-kay
- It's impossible to tell.
- The resolution on the frame's
too degraded for our facial
recognition software.
- And he's been cremated, so we
can't have his body exhumed.
- Exhumed?
- Don't you think you're being
just a tad obsessive here--
Obsessive is so the wrong word.
- Just keep digging.
- Uh, Mike?
Isn't this a little far-fetched?
I mean you just caught
a glimpse of the guy
on a really bad
surveillance video.
Hey!
- What was that all about?
- Oh, I don't know.
He's got a bug up his ass
about some Croatian warlord
who died in prison.
- I just learned Vlatko Radman
died 4 months ago.
- He saved
the War Crimes Tribunal
a lot of time and trouble.
- You didn't notify me?
- I didn't want
to open old wounds.
- That's bullshit.
- I beg your pardon?
- You knew I wouldn't
believe it.
- Oh for god's sake
- Vlatko Radman isn't dead.
- The chief prosecutor for the
Hague's War Crime Tribunal
is one of my oldest friends.
She personally briefed
me on his death.
- I saw him last night.
- I thought we were past this.
- I know what I saw, Suzanne.
- Do you, Mike, really?
- Don't patronize me.
- He's dead.
Let it go!
[Knock! Knock!]
- Sir?
- Come in
- Thank you.
- Um, there's something
I need to tell you
about the shooting in Quebec.
- I understand you've completed
your psychiatric treatment.
- Yes sir, but
The boy's rifle
wasn't aimed at me.
It was pointed at the ground.
- Was he starting to raise it?
- I suppose,
but I should have waited--
- Waited for him to kill you?
- I might have taken him alive.
- Shootings are never
by the book, Sergeant.
We do what we have to, and hope
that most of the time,
we're right.
- And when we're not?
- We wash the blood off
our hands, and carry on.
- You did the right thing.
- Yes, sir.
- I've been locked out!
- By whom?
- Everybody!
Everybody! The Hague,
the International Tribunal
for War Crimes in the Former
Yugoslavia, the government of
Bosnia-Herzogovina, the U.N.,
NATO
- Anyone with an official
relationship to Vlatko Radman.
- Really? You think
all those heavy hitters
are stressing over this one guy?
- Yes, I do.
- In 1994, Canadian Peacekeepers
were in Bosnia with the U.N.
The Serbs had
overwhelming firepower.
The Pentagon and others decided
to redress the balance
and assist the arming
of the Croats and Muslims.
- Vlatko Radman was
the leader of
a Croatian paramilitary
unit in Central Bosnia.
A warlord, helping himself
to the spoils.
- Looks like a real slimeball.
- In November 1994,
he and his men
crept up at dawn and
surrounded the village of Zubak.
- They massacred 228 Muslim
men, women, and children,
with mortars
and Colt-Canada C7
Assault Rifles.
- Where'd they get
Canadian guns?
- Where do you think?
Was CSIS involved?
- We were in Bosnia.
- Captain Mike Kessler.
- Andrew Mannering. CSIS.
- What the hell happened?
- Ah, this is what the Serbs
call it 'ethnic cleansing'.
Well, they target a Muslim
village, and the kill everyone.
They rape the women and
then take the men prisoner.
- Serbs didn't do this.
- I beg your pardon?
- One of the marauders.
He's Croatian,
he's got the insignia.
He's one of Vlatko Radman's men.
- Really.
- And he's carrying
a Colt Canada C-7 Combat Rifle.
Where did Vlatko Radman
get Canadian guns?
- Why don't you leave the
investigating to CSIS?
- So you can investigate
yourselves?
What's CSIS relationship
to Vlatko Radman?
- You were brought in
to secure the area,
to evacuate any survivors,
and to bury the dead.
- You could have brought in
any military unit for that.
Why JTF2?
- Because JTF2's operations
are classified as secret.
Captain.
- Radman was eventually
arrested, but not for
the Zubak massacre.
According to official
records, it never happened.
- How'd you know about it?
- Isn't it obvious?
- You were there?
- Last night,
at the Zagreb Restaurant,
I believe I saw Vlatko Radman.
- You said
he was in prison.
- Apparently, he managed
to fake his death and escape.
- Fake his own death? C'mon.
- Just find him.
He slipped through my fingers
once. I'm not going to
let it happen again.
- You know Slade thinks this
Radman guy doesn't even exist.
- Kessler didn't make him up.
- But think about it.
He's in a Croatian restaurant,
chasing Croatian bad guys,
and who does he glimpse but his
own personal Croatian demon.
- You think he's losing it?
- It happens.
- What about fingerprints?
- No, the table's been
cleared and wiped.
- Hey! Here it is.
Table seven. They had lamb,
strookli, and a bottle
of Zhlatina white.
- $86.30, including tip.
Andro Tomasic.
- Good job on shutting down
the Croatian heroin connection.
As it turns out, the restaurant
owner is a major player.
- Glad it worked out.
- You do good work, Major.
I'd hate to see you
throw it all away.
- Is that what I'm doing?
- You know, there's
this story I heard.
Of a Captain
of a top-secret squad
of elite commandos.
- Like JTF2.
- This man witnessed
a terrible event,
and was ordered by his superiors
to just cover it all up.
Of course he couldn't
forget what he had seen.
So he went, as you say,
off the rails. Had a breakdown.
- Is there a point
to this story?
- This young Captain
is a Major now,
a man of power and authority.
But the past surfaced again
and he may not be
thinking clearly.
- Agent LaGarda,
I'm sure you mean well.
- My superiors need to know
the head of ICS is
not chasing shadows
when he should be
chasing terrorists.
- I talked to this
old woman I know. A real
old-fashioned matriarch.
I helped her out
back in the day
when her son got
picked up stealing cars.
Mustangs, back when
they meant something.
- And?
- Well, the old girl makes it
her business to know everything
there is to know about the
Croatian community.
So, I showed her the picture
from the restaurant video.
- And what did she say?
- She's never seen the guy
before. Now, I believe her.
I think she's telling the truth,
I know her pretty well.
- Thank you.
- Ah, you mind if I throw
my 2 cents in here?
- That depends.
- Well, um, back then
there was a couple guys
that slipped by me.
This one guy
in particular, he
he raped and he killed
a ten-year-old girl.
There's not a day that goes
by I don't think about
hunting this guy down
and trying to put a
bullet in his brain.
- What stops you?
- I don't know really.
But something does
you know, God maybe.
The law.
- Sir?
We found the couple who had
dinner with your mystery man.
- Do you know this man?
- No.
- That's odd. Because you had
dinner with him last night.
- Show me again
- Why are you after him?
His visa expired or something?
- Is this the man you
had dinner with?
- I've never seen
the man in that photo.
- I've never seen
the man in the photo.
- Why don't I believe you?
- You immigration cops
believe what you want.
You think you can treat
people like shit for
wanting better life.
- The man in this photo
killed a lot of people.
- Who's the big liar now?
- I hope you're not hiding
any nasty little secrets,
because we're about to turn
your life upside down.
- What do you mean?
- Your employment records,
your tax history--
- Health records,
parking tickets,
whether or not
you beat your dog--
- Emails, visa receipts--
- Emails, visa bills,
who you called on the
phone and when, and why--
- I hope you're not cheating
on your wife, because
we're about to find out.
- I happen to love my wife.
I'd never cheat on her.
- What do you mean, find out?
- Charges on your Visa bill
for gifts or hotel incidentals.
Repeated calls to the
same number
- You can't tell Andro,
you'll destroy him.
- Uh-huh.
- If I tell you about the man
in the photo,
you won't tell him?
- That's how it works.
- I can't say for sure,
he looks very different now.
It could be the man
we had supper with.
An old friend of Andro's father
- Bojan Goric.
- Bojan Goric manages
a men's wear store in Oakville.
It's been there forever,
as far as I can tell.
- If Goric is Radman,
he was in Scheveningen prison
up until 4 months ago.
- I gotta say, if it is a cover,
it's a pretty damn
good one. I mean,
his immigration papers are
immaculate, and they're like,
over 20 years old.
- And his tax records?
- Employment history,
health insurance, driver's
license they're all pristine.
- Did you ever even see
this man up close?
- I was there when the survivors
identified him.
I'm not likely
to forget his face.
- Mike, if there is
one scintilla of doubt,
one tiny little hanging chad
- Anybody here?
- Hello!
How can I help you?
- I need a new suit.
- Then you're
in the right place.
I have some Merino wool, just
came in yesterday from Italy.
- I was thinking off the rack.
- As you wish.
What are you, a 40?
- 42 tall.
- I don't think you're
being honest.
Why don't I measure?
You really should
let me make you
a proper suit.
The one that you're wearing
doesn't do you justice.
- No?
- No.
Is that a military pin?
- Army. I was stationed
in Bosnia during the civil war.
- You must have seen
some terrible things.
- Were you ever there?
- No, I'm from Dubrovnik.
I was lucky enough
to be here during the war.
- Safe in Canada.
- Yes.
You, ah really should see
the Merino.
It's as fine as silk.
Here, let me get it for you
- Wait Wait!
- Always a pleasure.
- What the hell
are you doing, hacking into
classified files at the Hague?
Vlatko Radman is dead.
- Really.
- It's time you buried the past.
That's not a suggestion,
by the way.
- No?
- No. It's an order
from Minister Fleischer.
Our boss.
- It's Kessler.
Book me on the next flight
to Ottawa
- Captain! Captain!
This boy's alive!
- Medic!
Medics!
- You are going to be alright.
You are going to be okay. I'm
going to get you out of here
Interpreter!
I need an interpreter!
Interpreter!
- Tell him we're taking him
to an army hospital.
The doctors will make
him well again.
- Is she okay?
- Her name's Sonja.
The medics say she was beaten
and repeatedly raped.
- Mike Kessler, JTF2.
- Suzanne Fleischer,
Media Liaison.
- How are you going to spin
this to the press?
Women and children massacred
by Canadian guns?
- The press can never
find out about this.
- You've got to be kidding me.
- We're not the only
ones implicated.
Vlatko Radman was
Washington's man.
They counted on him to lead the
eastern front against the Serbs.
- Why fight the Serbs when you
can rape and plunder
Muslim villages?
Where did he get his guns?
- There are rumours. Iran
via Zagreb
with the help of
the Pentagon and others.
- Including CSIS?
- It wouldn't surprise me.
The order to cover this
up comes from the top.
We have no choice.
- You always have a choice.
- We signed the
Official Secrets Act.
We'd be committing treason.
- Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Mike. This is an
unexpected pleasure.
- What's Vlatko Radman
doing in Canada?
And don't tell me his ashes
are buried in a Bosnian grave.
- The United Nations Tribunal
cut a deal with him.
- They did what?
- Radman gets asylum
and a new identity in Canada
in exchange for testifying
against a bigger fish.
- You were there, Suzanne.
You saw what Radman did.
- External Affairs
granted the asylum.
If it means anything,
I tried to fight it.
- Were the Americans involved?
- What do you think?
- The bigger fish is
Draco Koscak. They call
him the Monster of Bihac.
He believed God spoke to him
and told him to kill every
Muslim in northern Bosnia.
He built prison camps,
starved thousands to death.
- I know what Koscak did.
I saw what Radman did.
- I understand.
- Yesterday, when we met.
You knew Radman was still alive.
- No, Major. I wasn't briefed.
- The optics are good
for Washington.
If they put away Koscak,
they show the Muslim world
the White House can
be on their side.
- I don't disagree.
- We armed Radman.
- No.
Our superiors did, not us.
They make the mess.
You and I clean it up.
- Um
I shouldn't be here.
- Why not?
Two friends
sharing dinner.
- Yeah.
I'm seeing someone.
- Oh.
- I'd have told you on
the phone this um,
it's just that
you sounded so
I don't know, alone.
- Actually, I was hoping to
get some free legal advice.
- Oh.
Okay.
That I can do.
- Have you ever been involved
in the prosecution
of a war criminal?
- Peripherally,
on a couple of cases.
- As I understand it,
a war criminal
arrested here can be prosecuted
for crimes committed in a
foreign country.
- Technically, maybe, but it's
nearly impossible to pull off.
- There goes Plan A.
- Is there a Plan B?
- Have you ever defended
a client accused of treason?
- Why? Are you planning on
spilling a few state secrets?
'Cause there's one or two
I wouldn't mind knowing.
- Stay tonight, Yvonne.
- I told you I can't
- Stay
- There are only 3 survivors
to the Zubak massacre.
The first, a 12-year-old boy,
died in the ambulance.
The other 2
emigrated to Canada.
- Sonja Oric and Maia Pelac
are the only two
living witnesses
to the Zubak massacre.
Their testimony could put
Vlatko Radman back behind bars.
- Guy like that won't go easy.
- Sonja Oric's address.
You and Darnell bring
her in. I'm putting her
into protective custody.
- What about Maia Pelac?
- I'll pick her up myself.
- I'm just saying, when I roll
with Hourani, I do the driving.
- That's because you're an
annoying passenger.
- Come again?
- Hi.
- Hello.
- We're from
Immigration and Customs
Security. We're looking
for Ms. Sonja Oric.
- Did she enter the
country illegally?
- No, it's nothing like that.
We just need to talk to her.
- I haven't seen Sonja
for over a month.
One day, she just didn't
show up for work.
- Is that typical?
- In the 3 years
that she worked here,
I don't think she missed a day.
- Did you phone her?
- Of course.
I left messages
on her voicemail, but she
never answered.
I owe her 8 days' pay.
- Did you ever see Ms. Oric
with this man?
- No, but I have
seen this person.
He came by one day when
Sonja wasn't here,
and asked about her.
- Did he leave a name?
- No. He wanted her phone
number, but I didn't
give it to him.
Something about him
I didn't like
- Okay, thank you.
[Knock Knock!]
- Chicha!
- Hi Maia. How are you?
- Mr. Mike, is wonderful
to see you.
Come in, come in.
I bring you tea.
- Oh, don't go to any bother.
- Bother, for you?
Is no such thing.
- So, I hear you made premed.
Nina keeps me up to date
on everything.
- She takes out a full-page
ad every time I get A.
- Her professor is recommending
her for a scholarship.
- Congratulations, sweetheart.
- Hey, come on. I won't get it.
The competition is brutal.
- So how come you
visit like this
in the middle of the week?
- Tetka!
- Is trouble, no?
- I'm afraid so.
Vlatko Radman
has turned up in Canada.
- How can this happen?
He's supposed to rot
in a prison!
- I need you to pack
some things. I'm going
to take you somewhere safe.
- For how long?
- Until Radman's taken care of.
- We checked Sonja Oric's
apartment.
dust on the furniture,
rotten food in the fridge.
- Super hadn't seen her,
she still owed him
last month's rent.
He said let it slide because
it never happened before.
- Check all the Jane Does
that have gone through the
morgue in the past 6 weeks.
- Hey boss? Mannering's here.
- You defied a direct order
to lay off Vlatko Radman.
- Did the massacre of children
make no impression
on you at all?
- You can't allow your
personal feelings to interfere
with the greater good.
- You don't lecture me
on the greater good.
- Why? Because you're
Saint Kessler, protector
of widows and orphans?
- What are you talking about?
- Maia Pelac,
the Bosnian orphan you
sponsored. You were seen
visiting her home.
- You had me followed?
- That's what we do at CSIS,
we follow people.
That way we know when
the head of ICS
goes careening off the rails.
- Maggie, Darnell! Escort Agent
Mannering off the premises.
- That won't be necessary.
- I'm ordering an
emergency sweep for bugs,
here and in my apartment.
- The office was
swept last Sunday.
- Don't you think that's
a little hypervigilant?
- You were CSIS.
There's no such thing.
- Ah, boss?
Bad news on Sonja Oric.
Her description matched
a Jane Doe found on
the Don Valley under
the Eglinton bridge.
Cops called it in as a jumper.
- Eric. Good to see you.
- Always a pleasure, Major.
- Eric was the toughest sergeant
in JTF2. You couldn't
be in safer hands.
- Pretty good cook too,
if I do say so.
- Will I see you soon?
- Absolutely.
I'll call you every day.
No cells phones,
just landlines.
- Okay, right this way.
- Did you have fun
last night, Major?
Playing hide and seek like some
twelve-year-old schoolboy?
- That's CSIS' game.
You invented the rules.
- When I'm done,
you'll never mention
the name Vlatko Radman again.
If you try to find him,
you'll be dismissed
and charged under the
Official Secrets Act.
And that goes for Friar Tuck
and Little John,
and all the rest of your
band of Merry Men.
- You don't have the authority
to issue ultimatums.
- Perhaps not, but she does.
- I'm told you ordered
extra security sweeps.
- Shall we add paranoia to your
list of delusional behaviours?
- Paranoia's the only sane
response to a man like you.
- You haven't been sane since
you cracked up in Bosnia.
There's a fault line running
right through you.
It's pathetic.
- That's enough!
- You were both there!
You wiped the blood
off your boots.
- For Christ's sake, it was war!
- Your behaviour
has become erratic.
- Going to all that trouble
to hide Maia Pelac.
Did you really think
we wouldn't find her?
- You're lying.
- Am I?
- Listen very closely, Major--
- Do you remember Sonja Oric?
You held her hand when they
loaded her into the ambulance.
- What about her?
- Well, this time
the bastard finished the job.
- Leave Vlatko Radman alone.
Or you'll be stripped of office
and tried for treason.
We have no choice.
[Telephone]
- Yeah
- Eric? It's Mike.
Maia's position may
have been leaked.
- No worries, Major.
Let the bastard come
I'm ready for him.
- Hey boss?
Whatever you need.
- I'm in.
- Me too.
- Sure thing.
- Oh God, I love this,
this is great. Guys come one,
this is so, ah, you know,
Magnificent Seven, right?
We are gonna kick
Eli Wallach's ass! Yeah!
- Walk with me a minute.
- What do you need?
- CSIS may know Maia's location.
- You think you were tailed?
- Darnell was with me.
He was with CSIS for
how long, 8 years?
- Oh no, no.
Don't even go there.
- Old loyalties die hard.
- Major.
- I think it's time
you called me Mike.
- Be careful, Mike. For a man
like you, formality
is a suit of armor.
- Did you get the location?
- If I tell you where Radman is,
what do you intend
to do with him?
- Arrest him for war crimes.
- You'd never make it stick.
Too many governments
want Radman's help.
And all the survivors are dead.
- One's still living.
- The girl.
- You know about her?
- I think you care
about her very much.
When you rescued her,
you brought good into the world.
- If Radman finds her,
he'll kill her.
- They're moving
him tonight at 10.
Crown Key Hotel.
- Thank you, Agent LaGarda.
- You're in deep waters, Mike.
I hope you know
what you're doing.
- Jesus Christ!
Is that thing loaded?
- Sorry, no.
No, no, of course not.
- What's wrong with you?
- I'm, I'm just cleaning it.
- That thing is evil.
I'd forgotten we had it.
- What are you doing here?
- I just forgot this
Man, you're scaring
the shit out of me!
- Where are you going? Zoe?
- Get me an ambulance!
And an arrest warrant
for Major Mike Kessler!
- On what charge?
- Murder, of course!
- Of whom, exactly? That man
died in prison 4 months ago.